Samsung leapfrogs Google by announcing 4-year Android OS upgrade commitment
Samsung leaned into becoming more eco-friendly through the use of recycled ocean-polluting plastics in its manufacturing and pushing device ownership for longer by extending software support. Today,just as we suspected, it’s taken the step of boosting its commitments for several Android phones and tablets by an extra year, meaning it will bring fourOne UI/Android OSupgrades and five years of security patches.
The new policy, asannounced, applies to the following devices:
Future devices in these series as well as some in the Galaxy A series will also have this extended support.
TheGalaxy Watch4 and Watch4 Classichave also had their Wear OS support extended from 3 to 4 years.
We’d hope to hear from Googlethat it’d be the first to support the Pixels for this long (the Pixel 6 and 6 Pro are getting three OS updates and 5 years of security updates), but it seems it’ll cede the accolades to Samsung.
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